Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 27, 1999Beadle County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1999, 8:29 PM CDT for Beadle County, South Dakota. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 1999, 8:29 PM CDT (01:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1999, 9:20 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Beadle County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 27, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr
Jul 27, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 27, 3:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 3:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
320 PM CDT TUE JUL 27 1999

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP/MOVE INTO THE
WESTERN CWA THIS EVENING AND SPREAD INTO THE EASTERN CWA DURING THE
NIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS A POTENTIAL IN ALL OF THE CWA...BUT THE
AREA FROM HURON TO MARSHALL WILL HAVE A GREATER PROBABILITY AND LIES
JUST SOUTH OF THE EXISTING TORNADO WATCH 561.

H5 RIDGE BUILDING INTO THE REGION WILL RETURN HOT AND HUMID
CONDITIONS TO THE CWA FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.  THE HEAT INDEX
WILL START TO PUSH THE CRITICAL 105 MARK. FWC GUIDANCE WAS ON THE
HIGH SIDE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS FOR MAX TEMPERATURES.

THE EXTENDED FORECAST MAY BRING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS BY AS
EARLY THURSDAY NIGHT.  UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND SURFACE FRONT MOVING
INTO THE CWA FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...AND COOLER AIR WILL SETTLE IN
ACROSS THE REGION FOR SATURDAY AND hSUNDAY.  FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WILL
CONTINUE TO HAVE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.

.FSD...NONE
 UMLAND

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDKingsbury35 min
Jul 27, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake, Miner48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.